Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Theodor AdornoThe poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Theodor AdornoThe usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.
Theodor Adorno